DIY Prison Project

Do not let a jail sentence become a death sentence.

Honoring authors who have lost their lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Our idea is to showcase the work of prisoners whether we publish their work in Evening Street Review or not. To that end we have a committee made up of prisoners headed by Matthew Mendoza, whose title for his chapbook inspired the name of this project. For privacy reasons, we will not use prison numbers or locations on this page.

When we receive submissions from prisoners, we pass them on to the committee for comment and possible acceptance for publication on this page. Acceptances are then considered for publication in Evening Street Review.

A former prisoner and successful author, Ace Boggess, has consented to assist with the project.

Prisoners whose work has appeared or will appear in Evening Street Review:

Aaron Parker poem: “Live A Cide” #24 61
Ace Boggess poem: “The Poker Players” #5, 30
Ace Boggess fiction: “The Morals of Marv’s Back Room” #17, 67
Akiva Isreal poems:”The Joke’s on You” and “Hermaphrodite’s Fable” #36
Bruce Bennet poem: “Prison and T.V.” #34
Childeric Maxy poem: “Just a Man” #31 21
Childeric Maxy poems: “Prison Senses” and “Poet or Prophet” #33
Dean Scelec fiction: “Dear Life” #23, 7
Gary Steciuk nonfiction: “Mary’s Cry” #25 36
Jacob W Brown poem: “ My Passing Train” #6, 156
James Doyle nonfiction: “Are You Kidding?” #24 Inside front cover, 166, and back cover(see below)
James Kunkel fiction: “Mile Marker 17” #31
Johnny L Wooten Editorial: “Non-Traditional Morality” #28, 6
Johnny L Wooten nonfiction: “What to do with the Lost Boy of the Barrio” #32
Kadaron Sledge poem: “Tissue” #21, 201
Kevin Cockman nonfiction: “Why Prisons Aren’t Correcting Anyone” #14, 30
Marcello Gibbs poem: “Isolated from the real World” as facsimile copy on inside front cover of #28
Marcello Gibbs poem: “World Peace” #31
Matthew Feeney poems: “Sun Shower” and “The Right to Write” #22, 12
Matthew Feeney nonfiction: “Hateful Stereotypes” #25, 142; poem: “Pax”145
Matthew Feeney poem: “What I long for…” #29 6
Matthew Feeney poem: “My Tree House” #30 100
Matthew Feeney nonfiction: “The Second Coming (Out)” #33
Matthew Mendoza poem: “Short Path to Ecstasy” #20, 131
Matthew Mendoza fiction: “The H in Happiness” #27, 130
Ryan M Moser fiction: “The Farmer’s Pond” #20 97
Ryan M Moser nonfiction: “How to Spin Straw into Gold” #28, 133
Ryan M Moser nonfiction: “Your Body Tells a Story” #33
Samuel Mullikin poems: “…Whole” 30 and “Home”30 #30
Sean J White fiction: “Lost and Found” 87 and “At Your Convenience” 90 #30
Tom Kropp fiction: “Ferocious Foxy” #26, 36 (see below)
Tom Kropp fiction: “Bad Betty” #36

Works accepted by the DIY Prison Project reviewers:

Anonymous “Civil Commitment: What it is and why you should care (or Uncivil Commitment)” and “FAC’s Covid Response was a Disaster”
Akiva Isreal “A Which Hunt” and “Missing Parts”
Artem Vaskan “Those Who Are Locked Up” (see below)
Brian Knippers as chase cole “nickel empire” and “interminable affinity”
Bruce Bennet “HERE, BUT ALONE” “DEMOCRACY ABUSED”
Childeric Maxy “TIME MACHINE,” “WRESTLING WITH GOD,” “SADNESS AND ANXIETY,” “ Rose,” “WHEN DOES LOVE BEGINS ?” “JUST A MAN,” and “THE ROSE”
Dan Grote “Barbed Wire, Gun Towers,”“Spare Change,” and “Low Mileage, Fair Prices”
James Kunkel “Old Man’s Cabin” and “Shock Therapy”
Johnny L Wooten “The Incarcerated Chronicles”
Marcello Gibbs “World Peace” (A Traditional Villanelle Poem), “Vote or Die,” “Family Roots,” “Mass Incarceration Awareness,” and “Isolated from the real World”
Mark Hartrick “Green Couch, Black Hole” (see below)
Matthew Feeney “Society’s Role in Perpetuating Hateful Stereotypes,” “Sandcastles,” “I didn’t try,” “Pax” and “Upon hearing they are trying to Civilly commit me…” (see below)
Matthew Feeney “Nineteen,” “Love,” and “My Tree House”
Matthew Feeney “Church,” “My Window,” and “The Second Coming (Out)”
Robbie Westbrook “Nothings Real,” “No, Not Really,” “Choosen Life,” “Can’t Struggle,” and “Crazy Things”
Stephen Stoeltje “Spider Haiku,” “Go ln Beauty,” “A Dark Night of the Soul,” “A Rubber Chicken Life” and “Love ls Friendship Set To Music”
Tom Kropp “Prisoner Playwrights”

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